General
- In cooking, a
wafer is a crisp, sweet, very thin, flat, and dry cake that is often
used to decorate ice cream. Wafers can also be made into cookies with
cream flavoring sandwiched between them. They frequently have a waffle
surface pattern but may also be patterned with insignia of the food's
manufacturer or may be patternless.
Manufacturing
Process
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The
main product of the unit wafer biscuits can be manufactured after
obtaining raw materials like maida, starch, soda, salt, colour,
preservatives, vanaspati, suger, flavours etc. which are easily
available in local markets. The calculated amount of maida, starch,
vanaspati, water etc. are mixed in a mixer to form paste.
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First,
large wafers are made in ovens. These wafers can be used immediately,
but they can also be put in a heated room. If the wafers are not used
immediately, they attract moisture, which causes the wafers to get out
of shape. Hence, if they are put in the heated room, they must lay
there for at least two weeks, after which they are straight again
because they have dried fully by then. The next processing step is
filling the wafers. This means that crème is put on one wafer, after
which another wafer is put on top of it. This can be done for a
maximum of nine levels. Subsequently, the wafers are cut and sometimes
topped with chocolate. After this, the wafers can be put into a tray,
and the trays are flow-packed and boxed. The packaging form differs
per product.
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Packaging
machines can be moved to form a packaging line. There are six possible
packaging line configurations but at most four can be run
simultaneously due to scarcity of packaging machines. Baking the
wafers, filling and cooling the wafers, and cutting and packaging the
wafers are decoupled from each other. Both baked wafers and filled
wafers can be stored.
Market
and Report
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A
Company in Bozen, South Tyrol, has been producing and marketing wafer
snacks of the highest quality for over 75 years. The Loacker brand is
known not only throughout Italy, but over time has established itself
in 70 countries across 5 continents, and has attained the
leading position for high quality wholesome wafer biscuits in the
cakes and pastries sector.
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The
bakery units are unevenly spread among States. These are mainly
concentrated in the States of Maharashtra, West Bengal, Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh. Industrially advanced States
like Maharashtra And West Bengal have very Large number of bakery
units. The per capita consumption is very high in industrialized
States like Maharashtra and West Bengal. The Biscuits are becoming
quite popular in rural areas as well. Nearly 55% of the biscuits are
consumed by rural sector. The higher consumption of biscuits in rural
area could be attributed to its position as a snack, longer shelf life
and better taste which is liked by different cross sections of
population. There is no marketing problem as every shop is a market
for wafer biscuits. India is amongst the top
five wafer biscuit manufacturers in the world. Biscuits are popular
throughout the country and people from all age groups enjoy them.
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